Manufacturing Delusion: How the Left Uses Brainwashing, Indoctrination, and Propaganda Against You -- Buck Sexton, Hardcover

A former CIA analyst draws on his experience combatting jihadi terror movements and the history of totalitarian regimes to show how citizens lose touch with reality.

Some of history's greatest empires have devolved into genocidal lunacy--often with shocking compliance from their own people. What methods can create this madness?

In Manufacturing Delusion, acclaimed conservative commentator and former CIA officer Buck Sexton offers answers. Drawing on his intelligence experience, expertise in crowd psychology, knowledge of propaganda, and research into some of history's darkest totalitarian chapters, he equips you to identify mind control tactics used to form compliant citizens. He explores the eight tactics of mass delusion through examining:

• How Stalin used Pavlovian mind games to establish absolute control
• How Chinese thought reform transformed opposition into terrorized pawns
• How Jihadist preachers replace shared humanity with weaponized fear

Using these examples and others, Sexton walks you through a history of controlling regimes and the methods they used to create passive citizens. More importantly, he shows you how some of the early stages of mass delusion have already occurred right here in the United States of America, on issues of public health, gender, and racial justice.

An unnerving explanation of how Orwell's 1984 could become reality, Manufacturing Delusion is essential reading for anyone who wants to know how to stand strong when everyone around them is going crazy.

Author: Buck Sexton
Publisher: Sentinel
Published: 02/17/2026
Pages: 304
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 0.96lbs
Size: 8.25h x 5.50w x 0.75d
ISBN: 9780593716588

About the Author
Buck Sexton is the co-host of The Clay Travis and Buck Sexton Show and the host of the podcast Buck Brief, where he discusses the news, information and events that matter most to the daily lives of Americans. Sexton previously served as a CIA officer in the Counterterrorism Center (CTC) and the Office of Iraq Analysis. He completed tours of duty as an intelligence officer in Iraq and Afghanistan, as well as other hotspots around the globe, and led intelligence briefings for senior U.S. officials including President George W. Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney. Sexton also served in the New York Police Department (NYPD) Intelligence Division working on counterterrorism and counter-radicalization issues. He lives in Miami, FL.